(1) The lists of candidates that have been submitted in accordance with the requirements of this Law are registered in the Central Election Commission.

(2) Registered lists of candidates cannot be withdrawn and only the Central Election Commission may make amendments to them in one of the following ways:

1) by deleting the nominated candidate if it is determined that:

a) the person does not have the right to stand as a candidate in the election of the Saeima;

b) the candidate is a person who has not resigned from his or her office (service) in accordance with the procedures laid down in Section 6, Paragraph one of this Law;

c) the same person has been nominated on the lists of candidates bearing different names or on the list of candidates bearing the same name in several constituencies (Section 10, Paragraph three);

d) the candidate has died;

2) by making corrections of a technical nature.

(3) In the cases referred to in Paragraph two, Clause 1, Sub-clauses “a” and “d” of this Section, the candidate shall be deleted on the basis of a notice issued by the relevant institution or of a court judgment. The fact that the candidate:

1) is not a citizen of Latvia or is a citizen of Latvia who has not attained 21 years of age on the election day – shall be certified by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;

2) is serving a sentence in a place of deprivation of liberty – shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior;

3) has been convicted of an intentional criminal offence and his or her criminal record has been extinguished or set aside – shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior;

4) at the time of committing the offence provided for in the Criminal Law was in a state of mental incapacity, a state of diminished mental capacity, or also after committing a criminal offence has become ill with mental disorders which have deprived him or her of the capacity to understand his or her actions or to control them and to whom a compulsory measure of medical nature in relation thereto has been imposed which has not been revoked – shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior;

5) is or has been in a staff position in the State security services, intelligence or counter-intelligence services of the USSR, the Latvian SSR or of foreign countries – shall be certified by the judgment of the relevant court;

6) after 13 January 1991 has worked in the CPSU (LCP), the International Front of the Working People of the Latvian SSR, the United Work Collective Council, the Organisation of War and Labour Veterans or the All-Latvia Salvation of Society Committee or its regional committees – shall be certified by the judgment of the relevant court;

7) [9 May 2002];

8) has died – shall be confirmed by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;

9) according to a court judgment is not entitled to stand as a candidate in the Saeima, European Parliament, local government council elections – shall be certified by the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior.

(4) The relevant information shall be submitted by the institutions referred to in Paragraph three of this Section in writing to the Central Election Commission upon request thereof free of charge within five days.

(5) If information that a nominated candidate does not have the right to stand as a candidate in the election of the Saeima is received by the Central Election Commission later than on the 50th day before the elections and it is impossible to produce new ballot papers of the relevant list of candidates, voters shall be issued with ballot papers of the relevant list of candidates with the given name and surname of this candidate. In counting the votes and calculating the election results, the votes cast for the relevant person are not taken into account.

[26 March 1998; 9 May 2002; 30 May 2002; 9 March 2006; 26 February 2009; 31 March 2010; 18 January 2018; 8 April 2021; 23 September 2021]